Danny Sullivan: 18 Years Covering Search
I’ve been writing about search for over 10 years now but Danny Sullivan yesterday celebrated his 18th year anniversary of covering search.
Danny posted the accomplishment on Google+ saying…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 18, 2014
This week I noticed a lot of chatter around a possible Google update, maybe related to Panda that Google denied. Facebook is working on new spam algorithms for the news…
5 Steps To Leverage Those AdWords Bid Simulations For Maximum Return
Though the basic concepts have remained the same, a lot has changed since Hal Varian released his bidding tutorial back in 2009 (video autoplay), especially with enhanced campaigns and those new mobile and location bid modifiers. One such change is that keyword-level simulations are now available…
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How to Identify Non-Ranking URL Page Types Using Google Site Search
Crawling a site isn’t necessarily the best first step when auditing a website, because it’s hard to quantify and prioritize that data in a way that makes sense to clients. Here’s how to use Google site search to identify non-ranking page types.
Prepare Your PPC Plans For The Search Engines’ Inevitable Pivots
Last week, Google announced some panic-inducing security enhancements, essentially removing search queries in referring URLs for PPC clicks. Plenty has already been written about this topic and, without getting into it too much, I think it’s a bit of a storm in a teacup. Larry Kim summed it…
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5 Advanced YouTube SEO Tactics to Drive More Traffic to Your Videos & Website
YouTube is a very crowded place, so how do you get people to watch YOUR video instead of the millions of others? With video SEO. Here’s how to leverage the signals YouTube uses to get more traffic to your videos – and ultimately to your site.
Search In Pics: Google Branded Delorean, Android Cleaning Bot & Passover Doodle
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Spam Fighter Riding Into The Sunset On Horse Carousel: Source:…
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Schema For User Actions Now Available
Schema.org announced a new form of Schema they have introduced with support from Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo and Yandex named Actions. Schema Actions are a way to communicate via markup on your web page the actions they enable and how these actions c…
One Easy Trick to Convert Website Visitors Into Leads
Instead of trying to motivate your prospect to do something hard, why not work the other part of the equation? Next time you’re trying to increase your conversion rate, try this: make one thing easier for your prospect.
Matt Cutts on How Google Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes
In a recent webmaster help video, Google’s Matt Cutts talks about the nuances of 404 vs. 410 status codes. While Google’s crawlers treat 404s and 410s nearly identically, Cutts reveals that sometimes Google does treat them a little bit differently.
SearchCap: Google SEO Myths & Yahoo Default Search On iPhone
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why Yahoo’s Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google Apparently, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to be the default search for…
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Google Q1 2014 Earnings: Profits Up as CPCs Slide
Google has revealed profits for the first quarter of 2014 of $3.45 billion, up from $3.35 billion in the same period last year, but its average cost-per-click income has fallen by 9 percent year-over-year.
Microsoft’s Scroogled Campaign: Dead…Again?
Scroogled, Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign, has met with mixed results. Derrock Connell, Microsoft Corporate President of the Bing Experiences team, recently indicated that Microsoft might be shutting the door on future Scroogled campaigns.
Introducing MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference. Registration Now Open!
Search Engine Land parent company, Third Door Media, Inc. introduces MarTech, a conference for people pioneering the field of technology-powered marketing, will be held in Boston August 19-20, 2014. Secure your spot & save with our lowest alpha rates – Register now!
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Searchmetrics Releases New Tools to Analyze & Optimize Web Page Performance
Searchmetrics has announced a new addition to the Searchmetrics Suite tools, called Page Cockpit, that promises to help marketers “more effectively analyze and optimize the organic search performance of specific landing pages on their sites.”
70% of Consumers Researching Cars Turn to Search Engines First [Stats]
New data from Kenshoo on the automotive industry shows that search engines are the number one place consumers go to find information about automobiles – and that those who engage with an auto brand on Twitter are 32 percent more likely to buy.
Google Brings +Post Ads To All With 1,000 Google+ Page Followers
Google announced they are expanding the +Post Ads to all advertisers who have over 1,000 followers on their Google+ Pages.
In addition…
XE16 Comes To Google Glass With KitKat OS & More Features
Google Glass announced on Google+ that they have pushed out a new software update to Google Glass users, this version jumps from the old version of XE12 to XE16.
The biggest change is that it updates the OS to KitKat…
Google’s Cutts On Big SEO Myths Are…
Google’s Matt Cutts released a video on the topic of some of the largest SEO myths out today.
He broke it down into two categories:
(1) Ads and their influence on organic results.
(2) Quick fixes to break Google’s algorithm.
On the ads from…
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Google Shopping Results In Knowledge Graph Carousel
Spotted via Pete Meyers and posted on Google+, it seems Google is testing showing paid results, i.e. Google Shopping results, product listing ads, directly in the Google Knowledge Graph carousel…